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Slovenian is spoken by nearly two million people in Slovenia and by a significant number of...

Slovenian or Slovene (slovenski jezik or slovenščina) is an Indo-European language that belongs to the family of South Slavic languages.

The terms Slovenian and Slovene refer to anything related to Slovenia and its inhabitants.

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The Republic of Slovenia (Slovenian: Republika Slovenija) is a coastal sub-Alpine country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north.

It is believed that the Slavic ancestors of the present-day Slovenians settled in the area in the 6th century.

The bicameral Slovenian parliament consists of the National Assembly or Državni zbor, and the Državni svet or National Council.

Slovenians (Slovenian Slovenci, singular Slovenec, Slovenka) or sometimes an equivalent but archaic version Slovenes is a nation that lives today mainly within the borders of the independent Slovenia (circa 2.000.000), in some northeastern part of Italy (100.000), Austria (50.000), Croatia (25.000) and Hungary (6.000).

Slovenian ethnic territory subsequently shrunk due to pressing of Germans from the west and the arrival of Hungarians in the Pannonian plain[?], and stabilized in the present form in the 15th century.

The earliest documents written in Slovenian are the Freising manuscripts (Brižinski spomeniki, Freisinger Denkmäler), dated between 972 and 1022, found in 1803 in Freising[?], Germany.

Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovenian: Republika Slovenija), is a coastal Alpine country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north.

Slavic ancestors of the present-day Slovenians settled in the area in the 6th century.

Before socialism, as much as 88% of Slovenians were Roman Catholic, while by 1991 this had already dropped to 71.6%, and the number of followers is still falling (57.8% in 2002).

The Republic of Slovenia (Slovenian: Republika Slovenija) is a coastal Alpine country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north.

The Freising manuscripts, the earliest surviving written documents in a Slovenian dialect and the first ever Slavic dialect documents in Latin script, were written around 1000.

The Slovenian government currently intends to adopt the euro as the country's currency from 1 January 2007.

The very first Slavic and Slovenianstate was Karantania, which mainly occupied the territory of today's Austrian Carinthia and SlovenianCarinthia.

After some flirtation with the Reformation in the 16th century, the region was re-Catholicized under the rule of Archduke Ferdinand of Inner Austria (r.1590-1637), who later became Emperor and pursued similar policies in the other Habsburg territories.

Forests are an important natural resources, but their true importance lies in the still preserved natural diversity, their ecological (protection of the soil, water and air) and social (tourism and recreation) functions, and the beauty they lend to the Slovenian landscape.

Many Slovenian emigrants are also scattered across Europe and overseas, for example in the USA, Canada, Argentina, Australia, South Africa (300,000).

The Ausrian part of Carinthia remained part of Austria and estimated 25,000-40.000 Slovenians in the Austrian state of Carinthia were recognized as a minority and have enjoyed special rights following the Austrian State Treaty (Staatsvertrag) dated from 1955.

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Slovenians (Slovenian Slovenci, singular Slovenec, feminine Slovenka) or sometimes an equivalent but archaic version Slovenes is a South Slavic nation that lives today mainly within the borders of the independent Slovenia (circa 2.000.000), in some northeastern part of Italy (100.000), Austria (50.000), Croatia (25.000) and Hungary (6.000).

The earliest documents written in Slovenian are the Freising manuscripts (Brižinski spomeniki, Freisinger Denkmäler), dated between 972 and 1022, found in 1803 in Freising, Germany.

In the half of the 16th century the Slovenian came known to other European languages with the multilingual distionary, compiled by Hieronymus Megisar.

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The Slovenian Heritage Museum was established in 1976 in the present home office building in Joliet, Illinois, to preserve many things of historical significance, not only for the SWUA, but for the U.S. ZARJA reports regularly on the goings on of the Museum - the latest collections or exhibits.

Slovenian composer Ivan Zorman, in 1949, hand copied a book of Slovenian folk songs that is also a SWUA treasure as are the several folksong books edited by Albina Novak.

Although the mass immigration of Slovenians to America ceased after WWII and Slovenian communities are dwindling as people marry others of diverse backgrounds and often move away, Slovenians and Slovenian Americans have found and continue to find ZARJA a place where they can share their common interest in their heritage.

The Austrian part of Carinthia remained part of Austria and estimated 25,000-40.000 Slovenians in the Austrian state of Carinthia were recognized as a minority and have enjoyed special rights following the Austrian State Treaty (Staatsvertrag) dated from 1955.

The Slovenians in the Austrian state of Styria are not recognized as a minority and do not enjoy special rights, although the State Treaty of July 27, 1955 states otherwise.

Another interesting phenomenon is for some German speakers to refuse to accept the minority as Slovenians at all, referring to them as so called Windische (a claim which linguists reject on the basis that the dialect spoken is by all standards a variant of the Slovenian language).

Slovenia was invaded by Axis Powers on April 6, 1941 after a coup d'état in the Yugoslav government ended Yugoslavia's participation in the Tripartite Pact and enraged Adolf Hitler.

There were Slovenians also in the German army (latest estimations put that number close to 10,000).

Most of Carinthia remained part of Austria and 14,000 Slovenians ([17]) in the Austrian state of Carinthia were recognized as a minority and have enjoyed special rights following the Austrian State Treaty (Staatsvertrag) of 1955.